Module 3.7

Resource Plan Development, Capstone Project

Participants will be shown how to develop a resource-planning document that incorporates current economic, environmental and social values. The course consists of online lectures, group forums, quizzes and a capstone project for the Module (DC) & Standard. The culminating assignment will be submitted to the course instructors for assessment. Once the participant has successfully passed the Capstone Project.


Module Objectives

  • Identify and described resource abundance through time and space.
  • Determine the management activities required to provide for a sustainable supply of consumptive and
    non-consumptive goods and services.
  • Determine the harvest of resources (including timber) within the context of larger, socially defined goals.
  • Effectively apply the concept of sustainability and sustained yield.

Module Schedule

This course involves a combination of recorded lectures, readings, assignments and participation in semi-synchronous online discussion forums and synchronous tutorials with instructors and other participants over a week period.

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Course Content

Getting Started

  • Getting Started

    Welcome to Module 3.7

Lesson

  • Introduction

    Resource Plan Development

  • Tutorial: Loch Lomond Forest Introduction

    Introduce the Forest, VOIT Overview, Introduce the decision model, Scenario 1: Max NPV, Scenario2: Flow Constraint, Scenario 3: Max Old Growth Reserve

  • Capstone Project – Resource Plan Development